Stories from inside Files.com.
Real people, real paths, real reasons they came here — and the lives they built around the work.
Adam Fastman
From barns and robots to building world-class support.
He studied philosophy. Spent years restoring colonial-era structures in New England. Supported experimental robots in Cambridge. Ran sysadmin work for state 911 systems. Then moved to remote SaaS support so he could live in the high desert of western Colorado — and ended up running Customer Engagement at Files.com.
Read Adam's story →Gabe Purrenhage
Building the systems behind a fast-growing platform.
From the back windows of his home in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, Gabe watches a river wind through the trees — a long way from the constant motion of the systems he runs at Files.com. Eleven years in, he's still drawing the line he started with: family first, systems healthy, then everything else he can ship in a day.
Read Gabe's story →Rommel Santor
Files.com checks all my boxes.
"Any job I had before, no matter how much I liked it, there was always something missing," he says. "Files.com gives me everything I want out of a company." Rommel doesn't reach for buzzwords or big slogans when he talks about the work — and the story of how he got here is the same way.
Read Rommel's story →Ian Waggoner
Selling with conviction.
Ian started his career writing code, moved through sales engineering, and eventually committed to the account executive path. After years selling around product limitations he didn't trust, he came to Files.com looking for a product whose value he didn't have to manufacture — and a year in, a promotion to Director that changed his career trajectory.
Read Ian's story →Jesse Harris
Keeping a global file platform running from Alaska.
Jesse lives in a regular Anchorage neighborhood, five minutes from McDonald's and ten minutes from Walmart — the only difference is the moose. He started at a local ISP, watched a merger drain its momentum, and joined Files.com in 2020 looking for engineering that respected the craft. Now he runs an engineering team across SFTP and the platform's most mission-critical surfaces.
Read Jesse's story →Karan
From no path to a clear path.
Karan was on a pre-med track — MCAT taken, medical schools accepted — when he realized he didn't want to be a doctor. He joined Files.com as an SDR in January 2024 to find out whether sales was for him, became the first person at the company to make the leap from SDR to AE, and moved through management to selling at a strategic level.
Read Karan's story →